SLO Bytes Photography Group

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The SLO Bytes Photography Group serves the general San Luis Obispo County areas of the California Central Coast. We are a Special Interest Group of the SLO Bytes PC Users Group; SLO Bytes
The members are digital photographers and computer enthusiasts. Our meetings are normally held via Zoom on the second Sunday of each month at 2:00 pm.

Notes from the Meeting of 02/16/2025
TOPIC: Photographer's Choice

Sadly, my dog Andy ate my notes for the session and my memory couldn't recreate the presentations.

What follows is my effort to reconstruct the meeting from Zoom's AI Transcription

Ralph Sutter opened the meeting with a discussion of his latest toy, the Harvest Right Freeze Dryer.
Unlike dehydrators, freeze dryers remove water from food by sublimation in which H₂O passes directly from solid to gas without a liquid state.
Sutter shared images of freeze-dried tangerines, sourdough starter and eggs. He also showed egg rolls created with a Sushi Bazooka

Alan Raul, using his Leica Q3 camera, displayed beach shots mixed with scenes from the San Luis Obispo Masonic Temple, Pismo and Shell Beaches

Stanford Brown reached into his photo archives, offered travel photos of Lake Louise, a king's palace in Thailand
He also provided numerous images of his daily walks along the Salinas River in Paso Robles, fascinated by gnarly trees and photogenic animals.

John Waller also showed a preference for dea trees, mixed with eerie cloud formations and a Chinees Wedding.

Kaye Raul presented several of her photographs, discussing her editing process in Lightroom, including blurring backgrounds and converting images to black and white. T The group discussed the photos, commenting on subjects such as horses, bulls, trees, and landscapes, with some debate about the merits of color versus black and white images.

The topic for the April 13^th 2025 meeting will be Images of Spring
Here are the meeting dates for 2025
  May 18 (May 11 is Mothers' Day)
  June 8
  July 13
  August 10
  September 14
  October 12
  November 9
  December 14

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Ralph Sutter